[guillem at debian.org: Re: Bug#460309: dpkg: debian/control doesn't allow one homepage per binary package]

[Armin Berres]

I guess you might be interested in this.
We can happily re-insert all our homepage fields me removed :)

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Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:46:40 +0200
From: Guillem Jover <guillem at debian.org>
To: Armin Berres <trigger+debian at space-based.de>, 460309 at bugs.debian.org
Cc: control at bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#460309: dpkg: debian/control doesn't allow one homepage
	per binary package
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-12-11)

severity 460309 minor
retitle 460309 Fix warnings when using Homepage on binary package stanzas
thanks

Hi,

On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 00:12:13 +0100, Armin Berres wrote:
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.14.15
> Severity: normal

> Lot's of the KDE source packages have a different upstream homepage for
> every binary package, because all the different projects are released
> together in one tarball.
> Right now it is not possible to express this in the Control file,
> because the homepage must be set per source package. Otherwise
> dpkg-source tells you the following:
> "dpkg-source: warning: unknown information field 'Homepage' in input data
> in package's section of control info file"
> Please implement the possibility to specify a different homepage per binary
> packages than specified for the source package.

This has been supported from the beginning, the only problem is those
missleading warnings. Next release fixes the warnings problem, though.

regards,
guillem

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